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Word: bill (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charley Hutter, Bill Kendall, and Jim Curwen of Harvard were all honored by being placed on the list last year. Hutter and Kendall of course have now concluded their competitive careers. Dick Hough of Princeton, breast-stroke artist, and Yale's Freshman free-style star, Howie Johnson, were both awarded places on this year's first All-America team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eric Cutler, Swim Captain Erns All-American Mention | 11/10/1939 | See Source »

...main purpose of these scholarships is to give grants of small amounts to students who cannot pay the full amount of the term bill," Douglas Mercer '40, chairman of the Council scholarship committee, said last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council to Award Term Bill Grants | 11/9/1939 | See Source »

...delightfully refreshing Cinderella in modern dress, a sophisticated melodrama, and an Information Please short combine to form a strange but highly entertaining bill. Cinderella is Deanna Durbin, of course, in "First Love." She sings as well as ever; she looks as delicious as ever, but above all she is less noisy than before, which is certainly an asset. The picture, original in its angle, frankly follows along the lines of the Cinderella story even to the lost slipper. Only the coach and six is transformed into the Commissioner's car and a large escort of motorcycle police...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/9/1939 | See Source »

...debate in Congress over the Neutrality bill had been an opaque mess to Vag. Each side seemed right, and yet they disagreed bitterly. Who dared to doubt the sincerity of the Lion of Idaho, Senator Borah; or the high-mindedness of the President, who surely knew that his place in history was secure if he succeeded in keeping the U. S. out of war? Vag even began to wonder if this were not just a great sham battle, masking the intrigues of powerful men behind the scenes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/9/1939 | See Source »

...wasn't the new Neutrality Act meant to fix all these questions? Vag had been reading headline after headline about how Congress was thrashing out a new bill that would take care of everything and keep us out of war, and then he read that it was passed by a large vote. Here was what he was looking for. If he could get someone to explain this bill to him, everything would be clear. And so Vag is suspending further thought on the subject of the War until he hears Professor Payson S. Wild speak at 11 o'clock this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/9/1939 | See Source »

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